Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

Let some people get rich first.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

It's all downloading. As a matter of fact, within five years, there will be no CDs.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. Its simply a choice to take action.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

I can't be a Christian on my own. I need a community. I need the church.

[about her offer of a Swedish massage] Alex: You're not Swedish. Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.